“It’s just happy and bright,” Jayne Vitulli said of her “Miss Cutie Pie.”

“Miss Cutie Pie” is, by the way, a small camper or trailer. “Happy and bright” might not normally be adjectives that come to mind in connection with small campers, but in this case they aptly fit both the mobile home in question and its owner.

Long a home away from home for the Vitulli family, “Miss Cutie Pie” now is parked outside Cranberry Cottage across Bothell-Everett Highway from Country Village.

Fully restored several years ago, the trailer has been transformed again, this time into a home decor and gift shop, a walk-in time capsule overflowing with colorful household memorabilia of the 1950s and ’60s.

Inside, “Miss Cutie Pie” is crammed with toys, linens, dinnerware, knickknacks, hats and plenty of other items from what Vitulli, 48, described as a simpler era.

“The world has gotten a little stressful for everybody and this was an easier time,” Vitulli said. “You know, sometimes I don’t like the idea of having a cell phone … You’re always on.”

Set up neatly outside the trailer are more curios and mementos of the middle of the last century, appropriately dominated by a carefully constructed campfire display, complete with appropriate cookware. Essentially, the trailer has become sort of an extension of Cranberry Cottage, itself a home-decor and gift shop situated in a restored barn and run by several local designers. They also essentially run Vitulli’s trailer-based business, which opened about a month ago.

“I just kind of come up in the morning and fluff it up,” Vitulli said, adding she never expected to go into business with the trailer at all. Her day job is and has been Bothell’s Aunt Jayne’s Photography, named so as Vitulli’s large family has supplied her with 63 nieces and nephews. Actually, restoration of “Miss Cutie Pie” originally was part of a project meant to help Vitulli and other members of her ample family through a rough time.

While Vitulli is one of 12 children, she said the family was still hit hard by the sudden death of her brother Richard Stolmeier at age 48 in 2004. Vitulli was just overcoming cancer herself.

“It was kind of a bummer of a time,” she said.

Borrowing the idea from a national group, Vitulli’s mother came up with the notion of having several members of the family restore what turned out to be five or six vintage campers. Vitulli liked the idea from the start.

“I would just go and work on the campers and it would be kind of our happy place,” Vitulli said.

Each camper apparently ended up with a theme and an appropriate name. Mom Kathleen Stolmeier, 83, has the “Hen House,” filled with everything related to hens and chickens. A sister has the “Cherry Pie,” the theme of which should be obvious. Yet another camper has a gnome theme. Still, while carefully adorned, the campers are not entirely for decoration alone. They have hit the road for several over-sized family camping trips.

“One of the things we do is we all wear pearls, because it’s a special occasion,” Vitulli said.

Actually, on this day, Vitulli showed up at her trailer in what she insisted was an appropriate costume: a bright red dress and apron with a large string of pearls and high heels.

“The women actually wore this when they went camping, they actually wore heals and pearls, if you can believe it,” Vitulli said.

Besides the road trips, before transplanting “Miss Cutie Pie” to Cranberry Cottage, the Vitulli clan spent a lot of time camping in their back yard, with the family hosting birthday parties and other events.

“It’s great,” Vitulli said. “You can spend time outdoors and have fun, but you can use your own bathroom and sleep in your own bed.”

Vitulli has a retail space called Aunt Jayne’s Timeless Decor at Chris Howard’s Now & Again Home Furnishings, 19211 Bothell Way N.E., Bothell.